{"id":7125,"date":"2022-07-05T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/spanish-language-mass-seasonal-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T16:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:09:50","slug":"spanish-language-mass-seasonal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/spanish-language-mass-seasonal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spanish-language Mass for seasonal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWe decided as an Office that every year, one local parish should act as host for our seasonal workers, thereby fostering a more tangible and integrative experience of welcome,\u201d stated Fr. Pierangelo Paternieri, Director of the Office for Cultural and Ritual Communities of the Catholic Church of Montreal. He added, \u201cThis celebration presents an opportunity for us to live in a very real sense the four words of action recommended by Pope Francis: to welcome \u2013 to protect \u2013 to promote \u2013 to integrate, while we strive as a Diocese to build the future together with migrants and refugees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Co-celebrating the Mass will be Episcopal Vicar Pierangelo Paternieri and Fr. Carlos Prieto of the Notre-Dame-de-Guadalupe Latin-American Mission.<\/p>\n\n<p>Besides the 350 workers taking part in the celebration, 50 volunteers will also attend. Following the Mass, a reception will be held in the parish parking lot.<\/p>\n\n<p>Official government representatives participating include:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Ms. Eva Collier, Consul of Honduras<\/li>\n\t<li>Mr. Nelson Olivero, Consul of Guatemala<\/li>\n\t<li>Mr. Alejandro Ives Estivill Castro, Consul General of Mexico<\/li>\n\t<li>Mr. Fernando Borja, Executive Director, FERME (Foundation for businesses recruiting foreign agricultural labour).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Messe espagnole travailleurs saisonniers\" data-entity-type=\"\" data-entity-uuid=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/thumbnail_image007.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe decided as an Office that every year, one local parish should act as host for our seasonal workers, thereby&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7126,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions\/7126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}